Some parents want to claim their kids' online identity before anyone else can.

"About a month before my daughter was born I discussed with some people what I wanted to lock up," Darren Rovell, ESPN sports business reporter and ABC News correspondent, told the Daily Intelligencer in an
interview.

"Before I announced her name to the select people … I locked down her name at Gmail, her dot-com, her Twitter handle. It was just an intellectual
capital investment."

Other parents, like CNBC reporter John Carney, create Twitter accounts for their newborns so the tweets can serve
as a digital scrapbook.

"My main reason for doing that was actually to give people who wanted pictures of my kids, like my mother, a way to access them without cluttering up my
main Twitter feed," Carney told NYMag.com.

But tweeting from your new kid's perspective can also just be fun. Carney added, "As a writer, it occurred to me that it'd be very funny to talk in her
voice about things that are going on. When kids are really young, you spend a lot of time with them but they don't really do very much. Tweeting in their
name was a way of adding a little bit more excitement to those early months."

I guess I'll pretty much fall for anything today. After all, I really was born yesterday. Cynicism doesn't start until day 3.